Are You Ready???

In the process of survival, there inevitably comes a time when someone else out there as bad or worse off than you will want what you have and someone may die. Will it be them... or you and your family???

None of the money in your investments or 401K will protect your family if you don't have what you need right then and there when you need it to survive.

You can have a boat load of money in investments for retirement, that will be of little help if you can't get at it when you need it. On the other hand, you don't want to spend every penny you have without a retirement plan.

The key is balance. Both investments and survival preparation can be built up over time together in balance. If your investments are far healthier than survival preparation, and ready cash is a problem, then you might consider dipping into a small portion of your investments to get you to a level of minimum survival protection. Then you can build both in balance and be confident that you and your family have some protection when the stuff hits the fan.

If you have boat loads of cash, what the heck are you waiting for? Are you insane? Guess who has a bull's eye on their back from the start? After a catastrophe, everyone is susceptible to attack, but the wealthy are targeted first. Do you think your home alarm and the police will protect you? The police force is staffed at the absolute minimum level necessary to create an illusion of safety for the local population. If even a relatively minor disaster occurs, the police will be incapable of providing you protection let alone everyone else.

Chile's bout with socialism in the seventies nearly killed the country...

They are capitalists now and thriving!

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=144318

Don't think there's a need to be concerned about EMP?

Here is a job search request floating out there to research the effect of EMP on technology and electronics.

http://jobs.theengineer.co.uk/job/62622/radiation-effects-specialist-emp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=general&ProcessedTrackID=5

House Panel Looks For Ways To Protect US Electricity Grid

The last three paragraphs contain the meat of the article.
They are afraid of the consequences of a grid failure even from a defense perspective.

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110531-716056.html

Doomday Predictions

I'm not a fan of Harold Camping, but there is other actually credible information in this article...

http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/151332/20110525/new-doomsday-prediction-harold-camping-maya.htm

Super Solar Storm to Release Super Solar Flare Soon!

Nasa is predicting the next super mega solar flare to occur late 2011 or sometime in 2012.

http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/10mar_stormwarning.html

Hardened Structures in the News

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43103700/ns/local_news-portsmouth_va/

Looting in Tuscaloosa AL

If you think that when a disaster/catastrophe happens, everyone will just "do the right thing" and everything will be okay, then read:

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=14542781